Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-28
STILL AT LARGE.
Chicago's Escaped Boodler
Maintains his Liberty.
He VIII Pross a Hard Bird 10 Be-
Capture Knows the Ropes
Pretty Well.

CHICAGO, July 81. The escape of
Warden McGarigle continues the all alb
sorbing topic of conversation and the de-
~tectiyes and police have thus far been I'M
able to secure a clew. McGarigle's flight
revives q talk he made.
About two years ago McGarigle was
talking abou6 escapes n the reasan
why many persons who attempted to run
away were apparently so easily captured.
This was long before there was any
thought In, the mind of Sheriff Matson,
at least, that McGarigle would be put in
a position to even make 1t desirable to
gain his liberty, and for that reason GER
tainly had no relevancy to the present
case of escape Said the then warden
of the Cook county hospital: 1.-THE
reason why many men are captured is be-
cause they run too far. 1t is an easy
matter to get away, but the average man
wants to make a long run for safety and
get far beyond the jurisdiction of the
court that wants to try him. If I had
ten minutes start I could get away from
the Chicago police and every detective II
the country. There are plenty of places
to hide, IL advantage is taken of them,
without trying to do too much. A Grim
inal Is always expected to make a big run,
and for that reason he is a fool, because
he does just what he is expected to do.
The criminal that makes a short race is
the n that escapes. 1t is just like O
rabbit running from a hunter. He may
run a long way over frozen snow and
make no track. But once in a while he
comes to a little soft snow and leaves his
footprints in it. They show the direction
4 in which hn 10 r1,nninn orl nv, f,1Jo,,,,,.
in that direction you find another place
where the rabbits feet show in the snow,
n you soon capture him. 1t is the
same way with one who tries 30 escape
from the officer. In a long race he is
bound to leave a track here ard there in
a soft place, and by getting his general
direction the detectives soon run him to
cover. They never would catch me In
any such way. / have had-too much ex-
perience with the waysof detectives ts be
caught by one. They always begin look
ing for an escaped prisoner, or a man
they want to capture, at the outside of q
big circle, and they cover all the leading
avenues of escape into Canada every
| time. 1t would be much easier to hide
right here in Chicago than to endeavor to
get to Canada by any of the ordinary
routes. There are hundreds of good hid
ing-places in a large city that a detective
or policeman never thinks of looking into.
: and | never could understand why a
I criminal wanted to be In a hurry to run
to some distant point. But they nearly
always do. They seem to be afraid to
stay. near home, when it is by far the
safest place. You can watch the detect
ives il you are close to them, and can
keep posted on every important move
ment and know when it will be safe to
clear out, When | vas chief of police
had all the outside points watched, but
at the same time / tried TO learn as soon
as possible whether the criminal had left
the city. l always played the string at
both ends. 1t is not much use to 90 to
a foreign country unless you can take
your time to it and go there quietly.
But when a man wants to escape he is
generally too big a fool to stop long
enough to think of q good place to hide
near home. He always wants to get as
far away as possible, thinking distance is
absolute security from c~apture.''
With this idea of safety, MeGarigle,s
thorough knowledge of the city and the
methods OF those who are after him, it is
highly probable that he has had fore
thought enough to put into practice the
ideas Which he expressed two wears ago
"a9 ~'Ah4is W q reporter, ana
several Doodle commissioners about the
methods adopted by others who had tried
an experiment similar to the one he put
into practice Saturday night when he did
not take a bath, but took unceremonious
leave of Sheriff Matson, and the escaped
conspirator is probably hourly informing
himself of every movement made for his
capture and preparing to add. distance
when an opp0rtrne time shall have ar
rived fer so doing.